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Each year, The LemonLight Prize celebrates the quiet brilliance and daring of contemporary poets — voices that illuminate the ordinary with uncommon grace.
This 2026 anthology gathers the winning and shortlisted poems from this year’s competition, chosen for their clarity, courage, and craft. Within its pages, readers will find work that reflects the spirit of the Prize itself: tender but unflinching, luminous but grounded in truth.
Printed in a limited short run and produced with the care of a fine-press edition, The LemonLight Prize Anthology 2026 is both a keepsake and a testament to poetry’s enduring ability to reveal what is most human.
Includes:
The winning poem and finalists from the 2026 LemonLight Prize
Editor’s introduction on the year’s themes and selections
Short author biographies
Perfect for readers who believe in the quiet persistence of beauty.
Each year, The LemonLight Prize celebrates the quiet brilliance and daring of contemporary poets — voices that illuminate the ordinary with uncommon grace.
This 2026 anthology gathers the winning and shortlisted poems from this year’s competition, chosen for their clarity, courage, and craft. Within its pages, readers will find work that reflects the spirit of the Prize itself: tender but unflinching, luminous but grounded in truth.
Printed in a limited short run and produced with the care of a fine-press edition, The LemonLight Prize Anthology 2026 is both a keepsake and a testament to poetry’s enduring ability to reveal what is most human.
Includes:
The winning poem and finalists from the 2026 LemonLight Prize
Editor’s introduction on the year’s themes and selections
Short author biographies
Perfect for readers who believe in the quiet persistence of beauty.